The Topic Of Skin Bleaching Leads This Sudanese Girl To Have A Life-Changing Intervention

By Apoorva Jha

Uber Taxi

So on March 2017, Nyakim Gatwech booked an Uber to travel to Minnesota. This ride was to catch an interview but ended up opening up her old wounds. The taxi arrived and the driver exclaimed, “Wow, you’re dark. If you were given $10,000, would you bleach your skin?” Then, the upcoming model answered gently, “I’m like, ‘Yeah I know.’ I can tell when somebody has never seen a Sudanese person before, somebody as dark as me.” Her next words were truly motivating…